Updated October 19, 2022 by the Eyewitness News Data Team

Eyewitness News is tracking crime and safety across New York City and in your neighborhood.

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Homicides
341

Year To Date
Through October 15

Average Homicides
400

Year To Date
Same Period in 2021

Homicide Rate
4.9

Per 100,000 people
Last 12 months

Average Homicide Rate
4.8

Per 100,000 people
2019 to 2021


Homicides so far this year are trending down 14.8% compared to the same time period in 2021.

However, the murder rate over the last 12 months is up compared to the annual average over the last three years, and the frequency of killings remains higher than it was before the pandemic.

The city is averaging 8 homicides a week over the last 12 months. In 2019, that number was 6 a week.

One way to think about the danger: three years ago, the murder rate was 3.6 per 100,000 residents. That’s only slightly more than half of the risk of dying in a vehicle crash.

However, during the pandemic, a person’s chance of being murdered in New York rose to almost the same likelihood of dying in a vehicle crash and is only now starting to subside.

In 2020, New Yorkers were still about eight times more likely to die from an accident, 10 times more likely to die from COVID-19 and 20 times more likely to die from cancer.


The risk is not the same neighborhood to neighborhood.

ABC7’s data team looked at the New York Police Department’s data by neighborhood from 2019 through October 15.

A closer look at homicides by neighborhood

The map color-codes each neighborhood by the homicide rate over the last 12 months. The three darker blues highlight neighborhoods where the murder rate is higher than the citywide rate.

You can click any neighborhood to see detailed numbers or the buttons at the bottom of the map to switch between numbers and rates. You can search for a street, place, landmark or zip code to zoom to that location.